Please clarify some documentation here in the Readme

[alexmc6]

I see from the Elastic Search website at
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/modules/gateway/hadoop.html

that "The hadoop gateway is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please use the local gateway instead."

Can you explain here the pros and cons of using this elasticsearch-hadoop plugin for ES storage? Is the author just saying that all remote gateways are deprecated and should not be used.

I have lots of data in Hadoop/HDFS which I would like to import into ES. Can you please explain whether or not this software will help with that? I assume I really need a Hadoop-River plugin - which doesn't exist yet.

Thanks

[kimchy]

1. yes, all shared gateways are deprecated.
2. you need to run a map reduce job, or something similar, to index the data from Hadoop to elasticsearch. You can have a look at the wonderdog project to do it, we do hope to provide something that simplifies it even more in the future.

[alexmc6]

Cheers. Thanks.